Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning...look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.

We freeze up because we expect a certain result or because we want things to be perfect.

At the end of life, nobody knows where the spirit goes.

A nuclear power reactor is just a fancy way of boiling water.

The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

I know that my only chance at any kind of depth or profundity is to linger within the story, trying to make it distinguish itself.

This Nation was established by men who believed in God. ... You will see the evidence of this deep religious faith on every hand.

When you bait your hook with your heart, the fish always bite.

One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.

I staggered backward-her one hand gripping my shoulder, the other still holding my wrists behind her-and she followed until my back hit the wall.

To be an inventor, you have to be willing to live with a sense of uncertainty, to work in this darkness and grope towards an answer, to put up with anxiety about whether there is an answer.

A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!